Slicing utensil



W. H. PRElscoTT. SLICING U'I'ENASILI APPLICATEON FILED JAN. 2l. 1922.

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3mm/dom www W. H. PRESCOTT.

SLIGLNG UTENSIL. A PrucAloN mw mm1, 1922.

muted Nov. 2s, 1922.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- Patented Non'. 255, i222,

VYILLIAM H. PRESCOTT, OF AEERDEEN, VJASHINGTON.

SLICING UTENSIL.

Application filed January 521, 1922. Serial No. 530,842.

To all fw lio/m, t may concern: 1

Be it known that l, l/VXLLIAM ll. Piensoo'r'r, a Citizen or. the United States.7 residingl at Aberdeen, in the county ol' Grays Harbor and State or llashington, have 1nvented certain new and usetul lmproyements in Slicing lUtensils7 ot which the tollowing is a specilication. I f

hlylinvention relates to an implement rer use in the kitchen to slice vegetables and t'ruit. Une ohjert ot the inyention is to provide an implement this kind yvith suitable adjustment for feeding the. Ylruit to the knives to eut thin or thick slices as desired. T his is a gre-.rt affhf'antage,` it is extremely ditlloult to cut an apple, potato, or onion in uniform slices by hand, and it'will he appreciated that a dish looks .considerably more appetizing when served with regularly shaped pieces ot' lfruit than 'if the pieces are el all kinds o'fvshapes and sizes.

Jlnother advantage resides in the tact that there will be hardly any Waste, irhen my inru pleurent is used because all ruttings as Well as the juice 'from the lruit are gathered 1n the recelitarle attached to 1the implement. lt also constitutes a great tune saver. .For small households, it is constructed to be hand operated, hut for hotels and restaurants itA is equipped to be motor-driv'en..1

(lne embodiment ot the invention 1s illustrated in the acoompanying ora-Wings.

Figure l is a pilrspective View or the dei, assembled;

l r,re 2 is u central transverse section; l,iure il is a top plan view with the :feeding` `Wheel removed;

`Figure #l is a section on the line Lit-4 of llig. 3; l

Figure is a perspective view oi the adlustahle 'feeding ineml rs.

d rl`he device ehnsists of a casing 10 which may he, made ot Wood or metal and has a .hidriral recess 'l l provided in its top part and a nuiuber elE apertures 12 leading trom the recess through the bottom ot the casing. 0n the under side ot the casing is litted a reeeptarde 13 carried in suitable guides 1st under the betteln of the easing 'so that it may be removed ivhen tilled.

ln the center ot the casing is rigidly secured a pivot pin 15, which extends upwardly through the cylindrical recess 11 and upon which a Wheel 161s mounted so as to be revoluble in the casing. The Wheel has for this purpose a small handle 17 on top thereof. Instead of a handle, this Wheel may be provided with suitable gearing for connecting with a small motor to drive the wheel. rlhe Wheel is held in position by means of a small thumb nut 18 threaded on the end oi the pivot pin 15. ln case the wheel 16 and the casing 10 arema'de o Wood, the pivot pin is held in position and properly guided by a number of plates S3, l), 20 and 21 rigidly secured in the casand the Wheel.

The vv'heel 16 is provided with a number el apertures 22 equally spaced around its axis and running straight up and down through the Wheel. These apertures are preferably lined by means ol small guides 23 at the upper end.

The apertures 12 in the easing are posi tioned to register with the apertures 22 in the Wheel periodically during the revolution of the wheel 16 and adjacent to each of the apertures 12 in the bottom of the recess l1 are placed knives 2i -with their edges preferably extending radially across the bottoni el? the recess. The apertures 12 and the knives 2a, Which may be fewer or greater in number than the apertures 22 in the Wheel, are new so positioned with relation to the latter that only one ot the Wheel apertures 22 registers with one of the knives at a time, or in other Words, that only one knit'e is operating while the others are idle, ln a recess 35, which is situated opposite to the radial edge et each knife is set a K:ruido plate 26 having a straight edge 27 facing the knile edge 25. This guide plate 26, rhich has the same contour as the recess, has on its under side a threaded shank 28 which is adapted to engage with a correspondingly threaded nut 29 having a large head with a fingered edge 30 for adjusting the position up and down ot the guide plate 26 with regard to the knife 24. The threaded portion et the nut 29 is guided by means ot a pair of seeuring plates 31, 32 which are rigidly secured in the casing and the lingered portion 30 of the nut 29 rests between these two plates 81, 32. Both the guide plate 26 and the top securing plate 32 are eut away on their inner sides, 33, 34, to permit a small tool to be entered from the upper side ol the casing, when the wheel has been removed, to turn the lingered head BG of the nut 29 and thereby adjust the guide 26 with regard to the knife edge and by this means adjusting the thickness of the slices to be cut.

rlhe use of the device is as follows: After the guide plates 26 have been adjusted to the desired thickness of the slices, the Wheel 16 is placed in its position in the recess 1l and the nut 18 tightened. The fruit is now deposited in the apertures 22 and the Wheel revolved by means of the handle 17 or a suitable motor, when the cut slices Will drop through the apertures l2 into the receptacle 123 Which, after the cutting has been completed, is removed containing both the sliced fruit and the juice from the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. A, slicing utensil comprising a casing having a cylindrical recess, a revoluble member fitting Within said recess, said member having apertures adapted to register periodically during its revolution with aper tures provided in said casing, knives secured in the casing adjacent its apertures and adj ustable guide plates at the knife edges.

Q. A slicing utensil comprising a casing having a cylindrical recess, a revoluble member fitting Within said recess, said member having apertures adapted to register periodically during its revolution with apertures provided in said casing, knives secured in the casing adjacent its apertures, guide plates, and means for adjusting the position of each guide plate with regard to the corresponding knife edge.

3. A slicing utensil comprising a casing having a cylindrical recess, a revoluble member fitting Within said recess, said member having apertures adapted to register periodically during its revolution with apertures provided in said casing, knives secured in the casing adjacent its apertures, guide plates, and means for adjusting the position of each guide plate with regard to the corresponding knife edge, said means including a threaded shank on each guide plate, and a nut engaging said shank and provided with suitable bearing.

4. A slicing` utensil comprising a casing having a cylindrical recess, a revoluble inem ber fitting Within said recess, said member having apertures adapted to register periodically during its revolution with apertures provided in said casing, knives secured in the casing adjacent its apertures, guide plates, means for adjusting the position of each guide plate with regard to the corresponding knife edge, said means including a threaded shank on each guide plate, a nutengaging said shank and provided With a suitable bearing, and a receptacle under the apertures in said casing.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature WILLIAM H. rienscorr. [L s j 

